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A wide-ranging, exhortatory look at the pleasures of great conversation, including strategies for how to bring it about, from the witty pen of an Englishwoman wise in its ways. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: We need to talk (or for the busy reader, the concise manifesto)
- Hello : on conversation's casting couch
- Small talk, big deal? : on striking up a tune
- Pay heed : on the acrobatics of attention
- The rest is silence : on not speaking
- Fit subjects : on topics in search of good homes
- Into the groove : on steering controls
- Do go on : on wrangling boredom
- Wit to woo : on humor as social engineering
- How to tell a lie : on the detection of untruths
- Pillow talk : on the languages of love
- The fine art of flattery : on love in measured doses
- Shop talk : on conversation as work
- Choppy waters : on navigating difficult conversation
- Shut-up shop : on how to wage a word war
- Are you receiving me? : on stitching conversation into your life.